Hello Simon, Monday, January 09, 2006, 1:45:45 PM, you wrote:
so i propose just to add words about "--make" to the error message SM> Defaulting to --make would make sense, as would a complete re-design of SM> the command-line syntax, but for the same reasons I don't think it's a SM> good idea. I don't want to break a lot of build systems for purely SM> aesthetical reasons. SM> Cheers, SM> Simon SM> Seth Kurtzberg wrote: >> How about changing it so --make is the default? I always use it. To me, >> that makes it logical as the default. Of course there are reasons not to do >> this, such as not breaking peoples build >> scripts, and no doubt others I'm overlooking at the moment. A flag to >> select the old behavior would take care of the build script problem, >> especially if it were also possible to use an >> environment variable (instead of, or perhaps available in addition to, a >> command line flag) to select the old behavior. (It isn't old, obviously, >> but I'm sure everyone knows what I mean.) >> >> Seth Kurtzberg >> >> >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:54:26 +0300 >> Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hello , >>> >>>how about adding suggestion to use "--make" to the following error >>>message? it would be very helpful for novices. i have run into this >>>problem several times before memoized that suggestion to use "-v" >>>actually means that i forgot to add "--make" :) >>> >>> >>>C:\!\Haskell\cpphs> ghc -O2 Main.hs >>> >>>Main.hs:17:0: >>> Failed to load interface for `RunCpphs': >>> Could not find module `RunCpphs': use -v to see a list of the files >>> searched for >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Best regards, >>> Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >>> SM> _______________________________________________ SM> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list SM> [email protected] SM> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
